diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 7efdbb22e..8a10231b5 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ highstate
 echo ""
 echo "Upgrade from $INSTALLEDVERSION to $NEWVERSION complete."
 
-if [ "$SALTUPGRADED" = True ]; then
+if [[ "$SALTUPGRADED" == "True" ]]; then
   echo ""
   echo "Upgrading Salt on the remaining Security Onion nodes from $INSTALLEDSALTVERSION to $NEWSALTVERSION."
   salt -C 'not *_eval and not *_helix and not *_manager and not *_managersearch and not *_standalone' -b $BATCHSIZE state.apply salt.minion